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Brochure | HP LTO Ultrium Storage Media
At the end of the trip, which was 21 days, 19 countries and
9,000 miles later, the HP LTO-6 cartridge still worked
awlessly when it came back for testing at HP’s media
laboratory. No degradation of error rate, capacity or transfer
speed was observed.
It is unlikely your data will face the same perils between your data center and o-site archive,
but no matter what conditions lie ahead, with HP Storage Media, you are ready for whatever
may occur on the journey – as the adventurers on the Cape to Cape Challenge discovered.
When the unexpected strikes, you need backup
Even the most meticulously organized project or business can suer major disruption that
no one could have foreseen or planned for. So it was with the Cape to Cape. On the sixth day
of the journey, and through no fault of their own, the team were involved in a major collision
in Tanzania.
“Nobody was injured, but when I saw the car, I thought we’d have to give up,” recalls Rainer
Zietlow. “However, it soon became clear in the garage that the engine and gearbox had
remained intact – so we still wanted to see what we could achieve.”
Using Volkswagen original parts, the mechanics in Tanzania were able to repair the Touareg
for the nal stage from Inringa, where the accident occurred, to Cape Agulhas. At 21 days,
16 hours and 36 minutes, they beat the time of 28 days, which was last set as the world
record in 1984.
If you take away the time for the repair, the complete Cape to Cape trip was actually covered
in just 8 days, 10 hours and 26 minutes!
In spite of the tremendous shock of impact and deceleration over that time and those conditions,
the HP LTO-6 tape on the roof of the car remained safe and viable. And thanks to having such
excellent backup, Rainer, Marius and Matthias were able to complete their journey. Although
it was unwelcome and unforeseen, the accident in Tanzania is the perfect metaphor for why
you need the best possible contingency. The team could rely upon their backup support to
get them up and running again. If you use HP Storage Media, you can rely on yours too.